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JOHN M . HIGBEE Mayor 1867-1871 Documentation and Research March 30. 1867.. .List of elections from Utah State Archives TE-0. Election took place Feb. 11, 1867. as follows: Mayor: Aldermen: John M . Higbee Francis Webster John Chatterley
From J. M . Higbee diary: "I was elected Mayor of Cedar City, Feb. 11, 1867." Also, "I was elected as Alderman, April 23, 1860." Note: The Revised Ordinance Book of Cedar City dated 1903 (Mayor T . J . Jones) s t a t e s : "Cedar City was incorporated February 18th. A . D . , 1868." (During the term of John M . Higbee] From the Utah Historical, Volume 38: "Feb. 12. 1870, Utah Territory gave women the right to vote, but not to hold office." "Utah women had voted in Territorial days from 1870 until they were deprived of the vote by the Edmunds-Tucker Act in 1887." Utah's women were not allowed to vote again until after statehood in 1896.

Includes biographies of the mayors of Cedar City and examples from the city minutes showing the events that took place under each administration. The three histories printed in the second section were written by three men at three different times in the history of Cedar City.

JOHN M . HIGBEE Mayor 1867-1871 Documentation and Research March 30. 1867.. .List of elections from Utah State Archives TE-0. Election took place Feb. 11, 1867. as follows: Mayor: Aldermen: John M . Higbee Francis Webster John Chatterley
From J. M . Higbee diary: "I was elected Mayor of Cedar City, Feb. 11, 1867." Also, "I was elected as Alderman, April 23, 1860." Note: The Revised Ordinance Book of Cedar City dated 1903 (Mayor T . J . Jones) s t a t e s : "Cedar City was incorporated February 18th. A . D . , 1868." (During the term of John M . Higbee] From the Utah Historical, Volume 38: "Feb. 12. 1870, Utah Territory gave women the right to vote, but not to hold office." "Utah women had voted in Territorial days from 1870 until they were deprived of the vote by the Edmunds-Tucker Act in 1887." Utah's women were not allowed to vote again until after statehood in 1896.